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These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.
War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.
Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.
Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.
The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.
It's unprecedented in the post-World War II era to have the leader of Germany say, 'Oh we can't rely on America anymore.'
A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
I haven't given up on acting, but I've gone away from it for a while to concentrate on myself and the fans of 'Star Wars.'
There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.
Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.
Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war," he said. -Baron Arald
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.
The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
I left it with a warmer,” he said drily. Because war mages ate their fried chicken frozen to the ground and they liked it.
I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.